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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 178, NO. 5 | Wednesday January 23, 2013
InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 5 · Opinion 8 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 16 · Sports
Voices: Pentatonix’s Scott
Hoying talks about the Trojan
family. PAGE 8
Double Header: Men’s
volleyball played two highly
ranked teams. PAGE 16
USG
By Jordyn Holman
Daily Trojan
The Undergraduate Student
Government senate voted Tuesday
to change the policy for granting
Latin honors to graduating transfer
students.
The policy calls for the
administration to eliminate the
practice of calculating grade point
averages from other universities
when considering a student for
Latin honors.
The three levels of Latin honors
are cum laude, magna cum laude
Senate
votes on
honors
Transfer students’ previous
college grade point averages
factor into graduating awards.
| see policy, page 2 |
history
By Will hanely
Daily Trojan
Author, speaker and Holocaust
survivor Eva Schloss spoke to
a full-capacity crowd Tuesday
night at Bovard Auditorium
about the human stories hidden
by the terrible genocide of the
Holocaust.
The event, hosted by USC
Chabad and USC Shoah
Foundation, featured Schloss, who
is best known as the childhood
friend and posthumous step-sister
of Holocaust victim Anne
Frank, whose diary became an
international bestseller. Born in
Vienna, Austria in 1929, Schloss’
life was changed forever during
the Nazi invasion of 1938.
Schloss spoke with clear
recollection of those early war
years.
“It was a great shock to us,”
Schloss said. “Life changed
immediately. Being a Jew became
very difficult.”
Facing anti-Semitism and
possible arrest, Schloss’ father
sought a business opportunity in
Holland. It is here where she first
met Frank.
Schloss remembered what
Frank said to her when they first
met.
“My name is Anne, and my
family comes from Germany,
and I can speak German to you.”
Frank told Schloss.
This sparked an immediate
friendship, though the two were,
in Schloss’ words, “completely
different types.”
“I was a tomboy,” Schloss said.
“I loved sports. I was also quite
shy. Anne was a big chatterbox.”
Holocaust survivor
talks of power of good
Anne Frank’s step sister, Eve
Schloss, recounts her first
memory of meeting Frank.
| see Frank, page 6 |
California
By dennison giongco
Daily Trojan
Gov. Jerry Brown released
California’s first spending plan
without a projected budget
deficit since 2007.
An estimate from November
forecasted a $1.9 billion deficit as
opposed to the current projection
of a $1 billion reserve, according
to the Associated Press .
California state expenditures
are now less than the state’s
overall revenue, which was aided
by the estimated $6 billion tax
hike that came with the passage
of Proposition 30 in November.
To help fund public schools, the
proposition called for an increase
in income taxes in the next
seven years for residents earning
$250,000 or more.
Though public education is
projected to be revamped under
Brown’s spending plan, it will
have little to no impact on private
universities across the state,
including USC.
“We get virtually none of
our operating money from the
state,” said Lawrence O. Picus, a
professor in the Rossier School of
Education. “Where budgets from
Students
react to
state budget
The California budget was
aided by Proposition 30,
which passed in November.
| see Budget, page 3 |
Joseph Chen | Daily Trojan
Holocaust survivor · Eve Schloss discusses the Holocaust
experience to a packed audience of students in Bovard Auditorium.
Architecture
By Nicole basler
Daily Trojan
USC students and professors
revealed their design last week
for USC’s home entry in the 2013
Solar Decathlon. Since fall 2011,
USC students and professors have
combined applied architecture,
engineering, sustainability and
construction skills to build a
functional and livable net-zero solar
house for the competition
The project has members
from schools and departments
including the Viterbi School of
Engineering, the Annenberg School
of Communication and Journalism,
the Marshall School of Business
and the School of Cinematic Arts.
The USC team currently consists
of 26 undergraduate and graduate
students from the School of
Architecture and Viterbi, as well
as faculty advisers Alice Kimm and
Gary Paige.
The design of the solar home is
the product of combined features
from a range of design proposals
by the students themselves — an
ongoing process of change, testing
and refinement.
Team member Corey Koczarski,
a fourth-year architecture major,
said the challenge required a
collaborative effort.
“It involves a lot of discussion and
team work,” Koczarski said. “Yet,
each individual is also assigned to
complete his own task.”
The solar house itself, called the
fluxHome, is an energy-efficient
alternative to the typical single-family
suburban tract house,
Koczarski said. It is designed for
the middle-class lifestyle and the
mild climate of Southern California,
reflecting two common models: the
courtyard house and the craftsman
bungalow.
The fluxHome will be constructed
from sustainable, recycled and
repurposed materials that are ideal
in terms of quality, affordability
and environmental use. The solar
house also utilizes light, space and
air to include an open floor plan
with courtyards, verandas and
porches, creating an atmosphere and
environment unique to Southern
California living.
USC Solar Decathalon team reveals design for home
The U.S. Department of
Energy selects 20 universities
to compete in the decathlon.
| see solar, page 3 |
Xi Luo | Daily Trojan
Going green · Qiuyue Chen, a sophomore majoring in communication, stands next to the model of the
solar home to be built on the South Lawn of the University Park Campus for the 2013 Solar Decathlon.

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 178, NO. 5 | Wednesday January 23, 2013
InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 5 · Opinion 8 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 16 · Sports
Voices: Pentatonix’s Scott
Hoying talks about the Trojan
family. PAGE 8
Double Header: Men’s
volleyball played two highly
ranked teams. PAGE 16
USG
By Jordyn Holman
Daily Trojan
The Undergraduate Student
Government senate voted Tuesday
to change the policy for granting
Latin honors to graduating transfer
students.
The policy calls for the
administration to eliminate the
practice of calculating grade point
averages from other universities
when considering a student for
Latin honors.
The three levels of Latin honors
are cum laude, magna cum laude
Senate
votes on
honors
Transfer students’ previous
college grade point averages
factor into graduating awards.
| see policy, page 2 |
history
By Will hanely
Daily Trojan
Author, speaker and Holocaust
survivor Eva Schloss spoke to
a full-capacity crowd Tuesday
night at Bovard Auditorium
about the human stories hidden
by the terrible genocide of the
Holocaust.
The event, hosted by USC
Chabad and USC Shoah
Foundation, featured Schloss, who
is best known as the childhood
friend and posthumous step-sister
of Holocaust victim Anne
Frank, whose diary became an
international bestseller. Born in
Vienna, Austria in 1929, Schloss’
life was changed forever during
the Nazi invasion of 1938.
Schloss spoke with clear
recollection of those early war
years.
“It was a great shock to us,”
Schloss said. “Life changed
immediately. Being a Jew became
very difficult.”
Facing anti-Semitism and
possible arrest, Schloss’ father
sought a business opportunity in
Holland. It is here where she first
met Frank.
Schloss remembered what
Frank said to her when they first
met.
“My name is Anne, and my
family comes from Germany,
and I can speak German to you.”
Frank told Schloss.
This sparked an immediate
friendship, though the two were,
in Schloss’ words, “completely
different types.”
“I was a tomboy,” Schloss said.
“I loved sports. I was also quite
shy. Anne was a big chatterbox.”
Holocaust survivor
talks of power of good
Anne Frank’s step sister, Eve
Schloss, recounts her first
memory of meeting Frank.
| see Frank, page 6 |
California
By dennison giongco
Daily Trojan
Gov. Jerry Brown released
California’s first spending plan
without a projected budget
deficit since 2007.
An estimate from November
forecasted a $1.9 billion deficit as
opposed to the current projection
of a $1 billion reserve, according
to the Associated Press .
California state expenditures
are now less than the state’s
overall revenue, which was aided
by the estimated $6 billion tax
hike that came with the passage
of Proposition 30 in November.
To help fund public schools, the
proposition called for an increase
in income taxes in the next
seven years for residents earning
$250,000 or more.
Though public education is
projected to be revamped under
Brown’s spending plan, it will
have little to no impact on private
universities across the state,
including USC.
“We get virtually none of
our operating money from the
state,” said Lawrence O. Picus, a
professor in the Rossier School of
Education. “Where budgets from
Students
react to
state budget
The California budget was
aided by Proposition 30,
which passed in November.
| see Budget, page 3 |
Joseph Chen | Daily Trojan
Holocaust survivor · Eve Schloss discusses the Holocaust
experience to a packed audience of students in Bovard Auditorium.
Architecture
By Nicole basler
Daily Trojan
USC students and professors
revealed their design last week
for USC’s home entry in the 2013
Solar Decathlon. Since fall 2011,
USC students and professors have
combined applied architecture,
engineering, sustainability and
construction skills to build a
functional and livable net-zero solar
house for the competition
The project has members
from schools and departments
including the Viterbi School of
Engineering, the Annenberg School
of Communication and Journalism,
the Marshall School of Business
and the School of Cinematic Arts.
The USC team currently consists
of 26 undergraduate and graduate
students from the School of
Architecture and Viterbi, as well
as faculty advisers Alice Kimm and
Gary Paige.
The design of the solar home is
the product of combined features
from a range of design proposals
by the students themselves — an
ongoing process of change, testing
and refinement.
Team member Corey Koczarski,
a fourth-year architecture major,
said the challenge required a
collaborative effort.
“It involves a lot of discussion and
team work,” Koczarski said. “Yet,
each individual is also assigned to
complete his own task.”
The solar house itself, called the
fluxHome, is an energy-efficient
alternative to the typical single-family
suburban tract house,
Koczarski said. It is designed for
the middle-class lifestyle and the
mild climate of Southern California,
reflecting two common models: the
courtyard house and the craftsman
bungalow.
The fluxHome will be constructed
from sustainable, recycled and
repurposed materials that are ideal
in terms of quality, affordability
and environmental use. The solar
house also utilizes light, space and
air to include an open floor plan
with courtyards, verandas and
porches, creating an atmosphere and
environment unique to Southern
California living.
USC Solar Decathalon team reveals design for home
The U.S. Department of
Energy selects 20 universities
to compete in the decathlon.
| see solar, page 3 |
Xi Luo | Daily Trojan
Going green · Qiuyue Chen, a sophomore majoring in communication, stands next to the model of the
solar home to be built on the South Lawn of the University Park Campus for the 2013 Solar Decathlon.